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Tuck Everlasting (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 111 Fresh: 68  Rotten:43 Average Rating: 6.3/10
 
Consensus: Though slow-moving, Tuck Everlasting raises big issues and explores them with sensitivity.
 

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Runtime: 88 mins

Theatrical Release: Oct 11, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $19,032,871

Synopsis: Fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is the beautiful, privileged daughter of the richest man in town. A disagreement with her domineering parents (Amy Irving, Victor Garber) sends Winnie outside the fence that surrounds her pristine house and protects her from the outside... Fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is the beautiful, privileged daughter of the richest man in town. A disagreement with her domineering parents (Amy Irving, Victor Garber) sends Winnie outside the fence that surrounds her pristine house and protects her from the outside world, and into the nearby forbidden woods. Her journey becomes a far greater adventure than she ever anticipated when she meets the Tucks, a family of immortals that live deep in the woods. Parents Angus (William Hurt), Mae (Sissy Spacek), and their sons Miles (Scott Bairstow) and Jesse (Jonathan Jackson), stopped aging more than a century ago after drinking from an enchanted spring, a veritable fountain of youth. With the Tucks, Winnie discovers the freedom lacking in her own small world, and a romance blossoms between the mortal teenager and the immortal Jesse. With the local police searching for the missing Winnie and a mysterious stranger (Ben Kingsley) searching for the Tucks, Winnie must choose between immortality and a life with her new friends, or the life--and inevitable death--of a normal human. TUCK EVERLASTING is directed by Jay Russell (MY DOG SKIP, END OF THE LINE), adapted from the classic novel by Natalie Babbitt, and narrated by Elisabeth Shue. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Jonathan Jackson, Alexis Bledel, Amy Irving, William Hurt, Ben Kingsley

Director: Jay Russell
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Leiber
Producer: James V. Hart, Marc Abraham, Jane Startz, Deborah Forte
Composer: William Ross

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Feb 25, 2003

[DVD Details]
  • Disney's Tuck Everlasting
  • Walt Disney Pictures' TUCK EVERLASTING, a timeless and enchanting adventure about one girl's magical summer, will captivate audiences of any age. Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Soon she happens upon Jesse Tuck -- a boy full of life and adventure who's unlike anyone she's ever met -- and falls in love. The Tucks, a kind and generous family, have a powerful secret -- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. And now Winnie must choose to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring. It's a life-affirming adventure that will cast its irresistible spell over you again and again.
  • Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
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    11/30/03
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    There is no life in the story, and what could be a thoughtful rumination on mortality offers only pat Disneyfied lessons.

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    09/06/03
    Josh Bell
    Las Vegas Weekly
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    Lambent, wholesome youth film, nothing short of magical, wherein a cosseted, cloistered lass escapes from her perennial confines of parental stuffiness .

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    07/10/03
    Greg Muskewitz
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    A great-looking film with beautiful scenery and some fine actors, but it lacks a good third act.

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    04/09/03
    Robert Roten
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    With much to be enchanted by while you're watching and some worthwhile questions to think about afterwards, Tuck Everlasting is rewarding old-fashioned entertainment.

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    03/21/03
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    Attractively filmed and pleasantly conceived, it ventures too far into sentimentality, and not far enough into its fascinating life versus immortality subject matter.

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    03/05/03
    Brian Webster
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    At one point, Winnie says to Jesse that she 'wishes this moment could last forever.' I thought the movie was going to last forever.

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    02/22/03
    John J. Puccio
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    Despite its sad feel, and the fact that it drags almost to a standstill in the middle, it's quite beautiful visually and features fine performances by Bledel, Jackson, and the others.

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    02/08/03
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    A movie that the less charitable might describe as a castrated cross between Highlander and Lolita.

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    11/06/02
    Susan Stark
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    B+

    Harks back to a time when movies had more to do with imagination than market research.

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    11/05/02
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    In the end, Tuck Everlasting falls victim to that everlasting conundrum experienced by every human who ever lived: too much to do, too little time to do it in.

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    10/30/02
    Matt Easterbrook
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    That rare movie that works on any number of levels -- as a film of magic and whimsy for children, a heartfelt romance for teenagers and a compelling argument about death, both pro and con, for adults.

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    10/25/02
    Joe Baltake
    Sacramento Bee
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    Sure to make teenage girls giddy, their mom’s cry and their father’s smile.

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    10/25/02
    Bruce Bennett
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    [The kind of] story that stays with kids, becomes more meaningful to them as grownups.

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    10/22/02
    MaryAnn Johanson
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    "Tuck Everlasting" is a rare thing: not only a family film but a film about a young woman.

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    10/21/02
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    Don't be put off by people who may tell you this is a children's story. There are universal themes here that are not limited by age.

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